If there ever was a proxy for the future of Networks then it is Larry Smarr. He has an uncanny ability to predict the network evolution. SmarrÌs latest project, an OPTIputer, is trying to develop a blueprint of the network of the future. By combining optical networks, super-computing and grid technologies, Smarr believes that OPTIputer will be model for a new improved and supersonic Internet. Read on…